On show #57, Carrie Lightfoot and Barbara Baird discuss Project ChildSafe and how you and the kids in your life can benefit from it. Barb interviewed Bill Romanelli, who works to market this program effectively for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and who mentions the number 37 million. The pair also talk about trending firearms news, cool products and a couple of events that you might want to attend. Plus, Julie Golob offers recoil control tips. Sponsored by Ruger and NRA Women.

Before launching into the week’s topic, the pair discuss what’s been happening in their lives. Barb tells about visiting a Jewish cemetery in North Dakota and also meeting a cousin once-removed who is 99 and not slowing down. Carrie is looking forward to traveling to West Bend, Wis., to take the USCCA Training Counselor course.

Barb looked around at the Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery near Ashley, ND.

Carrie reiterates info about the heat in Phoenix this summer. Is the heat getting to her?

Topic: Project ChildSafe — 37 Million and Counting

Interview with Bill Romanelli

Bill Romanelli is the spokesperson for NSSF’s Project ChildSafe Program, a national program of the National Shooting Sports Foundation to provide education on firearm safety and encourage people to store firearms responsibly. Its goals are to help prevent firearm accidents, theft and misuse. Distribute free gun locks – 37 million so far.

Survival Story

Carrie reports on a story of a Jacksonville, Fla., woman who shot and killed her abusive ex-boyfriend during a break-in.

Firearms News You Can Use

Barb notes that mass shootings in the US are up, but the victim count is down.

Calendar: What’s up?

Barb noticed that Vermont Outdoors Woman is sponsoring an outdoor education retreat for adventurous women 18 years and older in Canaan, Vermont on September 15-17, 2017. Fall Doe Camp will offer three days of classes to be held in the woods, in the lodge, on the lake and on the sandy beach as foliage season begins in the Northeast Kingdom of VT.